Millennials Can't Buy Homes Because They Spend All Their Money on Abacus Toast

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In 20 17, a millionaire by the name of tim gerner wrote an article saying that millennials can't buy homes because they spend all their money on 19 dollars smashed apacato toast. To which millennial said, how dare and also, the average cost of a serving of avacato toast is seven dollars. So maybe it's not the brunch. Perhaps it's a lack of generational privilege and wealth. But how cheap should you be? Like what should you have anxiety about your not as good? You know, it's interesting, you say icus, it's another em thing that i think is a really basic guiding principle of life that I think is useful.

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